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96.6 per cent of their own total crop acreage. 1 These seven states 

 constitute, therefore, a region in which the cultivated area is 

 almost wholly devoted to the production of those crops in the 

 cultivation and handling, of which farm machinery is most used. 

 Their acreage in the different farm crops, as reported to the 

 Census Office, for the period of 18 80- 1900, was as follows : 



1890 



Cereals' 2 . . . 

 Hay and forage 3 

 Tobacco 4 . . . 

 Hops 5 .... 

 Cotton 6 . . . . 



Totals 



82,1 16,414 



22,010,381 



2,587 



911 



153 



58,522,442 



i9.770,3 2 3 



4,500 



46 



73 1 



39,923,160 



7.998,3 6 5 

 6,906 



i3 



104,130,446 



78,298,042 



47,928,534 



The average acreage in farm crops, per farm of ten acres and 

 over, 7 was, in 1880, 64.4 acres; in 1890, 86.2 acres; in 1900, 

 102.5 acres. The average acreage in all farm crops, per person 

 cultivating such crops, 8 was, in 1880, 40:6 acres; in 1890, 53.9 

 acres ; in 1900, 62.4 acres. 



1 The total crop acreage of these seven states in 1899 was 108,394,908 acres 

 (Twelfth Census, Agriculture, Vol. II, p. 62). 



2 Twelfth Census, Agriculture, Vol. II, p. 63. 



3 Ibid., p. 215. 4 Ibid., p. 527. 



5 Ibid., p. 540; Eleventh Census, Agriculture, Vol. II, p. 91 et seq. 



6 Twelfth Census, Agriculture, Vol. II, p. 424. 



7 Tracts of less than ten acres are excluded as being vegetable, or truck, farms 

 rather than farms for the raising of the crops here considered. For number of 

 farms, see Twelfth Census. Agriculture, Vol. I, pp. 688, 690. 



8 Agricultural laborers, farmers, planters, and overseers. 



